Show Drove Fire Horses Veteran Recalls D Days ys Before Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment Was Motorized Few of Salt Lakes Lake's younger generation gen gen- geni can recall the days when horses drew fire apparatus through the Uie streets s yet the oldest fireman in years of pf active duty has never served on motorized equipment He f Is Fred 61 61 Harrison avenue chief al alarm operator opera opera- ta tor who Joined the tire fire department 35 years ago as driver of ot the chemical wagon That he is 15 stilt still on duty J Js is a tribute to the h courage traditional among smoke He W was urging hi hl hIs horses through a raging windstorm in 1007 1907 to a froat fro fire at the thc old orphans' orphans home at Third East and First South streets when a large tree blew oyer over o on the tho wagon Spent Year In Ii Bed fled His back broken and pelvis crushed in the accident nt Mr Gulbrandsen n re roo fused to give up and after spending a year In bed he returned to duty dut in ina ini a i plaster cast Never again was he to drive hI his sleek horse horses He wore the c east cast st for 10 19 years jears discarding at it t only six years a ago o. o Since his return to service after the accIdent he has been in charge of ot fire records and has don done much toward promoting friendly relations between Salt Lakers and the fire lire department de No one regretted more than I that the old fire horses had bad to be replaced by motors but the city was spread spreadIng Ing out and the fire fighters had to move faster or lo losses es would have mounted sky high At that the horse drawn apparatus was able to get out aut of the s station Uon faster aster than the trucks Provides More Protection Development of a speedy eedy alarm system has worked hand in hand with motor-driven motor equipment in providing property owners additional protection protection tion More anti and more electrical and automatic automatic au au- au apparatus has hns been en added to toi the alarm sy system in recent years year but bu 44 wy 4 jP j P 3 Fred red Mr Gulbrandsen's dream is yet unfulfilled un un- fulfilled He wants want to have the alarm office moved from the top floor of the public safety building to a building of it its ft own in Liberty park This ThI would remove the alarm office and its valuable records from tho the threat of destruction by a business district fire tire and place it in the center of the shaped U-shaped arrangement of the city's fire stations st along the east north and west se sections of ot town he explains |